***WARNING: This story contains graphic details.***
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) — Tuesday marked a graphic day of testimony in the Taylor Schabusiness trial.
Schabusiness was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault for allegedly killing Shad Thyrion in Wisconsin during 2021. She has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Now, a jury heard testimony from Dr. Vincent Tranchida, who works for the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office.
Tranchida performed the autopsy on Thyrion after helping to collect and examine the remains from both a house on Stony Brook Lane and a minivan Schabusiness was known to have been driving.
According to Tranchida, he determined Thyrion cause of death was strangulation, while the manner of death was homicide.
During Tranchida's testimony, the jury saw an autopsy photo of Thyrion's decapitated head. The doctor described the wounds and bruising that led him to determine the cause of death.
The jury also saw several diagrams, created by Tranchida, that identified all of the injuries to Thyrion's body.
The medical examiner explained the points of dismemberment and the decapitation. He also noted the torso was cut in half, and the back "was fileted." The doctor also told the jury there were injuries consistent with other attempts to dismember the body, including stab wounds and what appeared to be attempts to remove flesh from bones.
While the medical examiner said toxicology tests indicated Thyrion had drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in his system, the drugs did not cause his death.
Jurors also saw footage from a Green Bay Police officer's bodycam as Shabusiness was taken into custody. The officer testified he noticed blood stains on Schabusiness' sweatshirt and hands as he handcuffed her. That officer testified Schabusiness was cooperative and didn't appear to be under the influence of any drugs.
The case has made headlines across the nation.
During a Feb. 14 hearing, moments after Judge Thomas Walsh ruled the trial would be delayed, Schabusiness got out of her seat and attacked her attorney, Quinn Jolly. A sheriff’s deputy quickly subdued Schabusiness.
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